Merge branch 'jc/diff-relative'

* jc/diff-relative:
  diff --relative: help working in a bare repository
  diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 8d35cbd60d..8dc5b001c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 	Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
 	on-disk file to tree contents.
 
+--relative[=<path>]::
+	When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
+	told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
+	pathnames relative to it with this option.  When you are
+	not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
+	can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
+	to by giving a <path> as an argument.
+
 --text::
 	Treat all files as text.